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  • ISBN: 9780061340406 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0061340405 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xviii, 312 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Harper, c2008.

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Subject: Fiction > History and criticism.
Books and reading
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1001 . ‡aFoster, Thomas C. ‡0(LARL_NWRL_CONSORTIUM)184069
24510. ‡aHow to read novels like a professor / ‡cThomas C. Foster.
250 . ‡a1st ed.
260 . ‡aNew York : ‡bHarper, ‡cc2008.
300 . ‡axviii, 312 p. ; ‡c21 cm.
504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-312).
5050 . ‡aPreface: Novel possibilities, or all animals aren't pigs? -- Introduction: Once upon a time : a short, chaotic, and entirely idiosyncratic history of the novel -- Pickup lines and open(ing) seductions or, why novels have first pages -- You can't breathe where the air is clear -- Who's in charge here? -- Never trust a narrator with a speaking part -- A still, small voice (or a great, galumphing one) -- Men (and women) made out of words, or, My pip ain't like your pip -- When very bad people happen to good novels -- Wrinkles in time, or Chapters just might matter -- Everywhere is just one place -- Clarissa's flowers -- Met-him-pike-hoses -- Life sentences -- Drowning in the stream of consciousness -- The light on Daisy's dock -- Fiction about fiction -- Source codes and recycle bins -- Interlude: Read with your ears -- Improbabilities : foundlings and magi, colonels and boy wizards -- What's the big idea--or even the small one? -- Who broke my novel? -- Untidy endings -- History in the novel/the novel in history -- Conspiracy theory -- Conclusion: The never-ending journey.
650 0. ‡aFiction ‡xHistory and criticism. ‡0(LARL_NWRL_CONSORTIUM)20148
650 0. ‡aBooks and reading ‡0(LARL_NWRL_CONSORTIUM)15264
901 . ‡a96293 ‡bOCLC ‡c96293 ‡tbiblio

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